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672. Harley MS 519
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 519
- Title:
- A treatise on the institution and discipline of a soldier
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-96r: The ‘institucion and dysepline of a souldier gathered oute of dyverse auntyent histories very necessarye to be perused in theis perilous tymes of all good harttes and worthye myndes’.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 16th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
673. Harley MS 520
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 520
- Title:
- Guillaume Postel, De nativitate mediatoris opus in quo totius naturae obscuritas illustratur
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-188r: Guillaume Postel, De nativitate mediatoris opus in quo totius naturae obscuritas illustratur.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
674. Harley MS 521
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 521
- Title:
- An English heraldic manuscript
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 3r-50v: The arms of English nobility and gentry (6 per page). ff. 51v-55r: A fragment of a heraldic manuscript with arms of Cheshire families (12 per page). ff. 56r-59r: Arms, displaying the types of crosses in heraldry (4 per page); with some marginal additions in brown ink. ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Latin
- Date Range:
- c 1450
- Extent:
- 1 volume
675. Harley MS 522
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 522
- Title:
- Gildas, De excidio Britanniae
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 4r-77v: Gildas, De excidio Britanniae [English translation]. The manuscript contains a few later additions: ff. [i]recto-2r: Notes about Gildas, printed works and history, added in the 16th century. f. 3r: A title-page added by Sir Simonds D’Ewes, added in the 17th century. ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- c 1550
- Extent:
- 1 volume
676. Harley MS 523
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 523
- Title:
- Letters of Sir Philip Hoby, 1548-1553
- Scope & Content:
- Collection of copied letters dating from 1548-1553. Concerning Sir Philip Hoby (1504/5–1558), diplomat and administrator, the Privy Council, and others. f. 1*r: Pasted title page. ‘Sir Phillip Hobby & otheres Ambasages with the Emperore. R:S: 1616’. f. 2*r: ‘Sir Phillipe hobes letters dat...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- c. 1616
- Extent:
- 1 volume
677. Harley MS 524
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 524
- Title:
- Collection of sermons and theological tracts (imperfect)
- Scope & Content:
- The collection includes (f. 66) two contemporary additions relating to medicine, a charm (item 1) and a short verse on humours (item 2). Two short chapters (ff. 84, 119-11v; items 3-4) discuss the formation of the fetus and birth in theological rather than medical terms. The cataloguing of the m...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman, English, French, Old, and Latin
- Date Range:
- Mid 13th century
- Extent:
- 1 item
678. Harley MS 525
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 525
- Title:
- The Seege of Troy; Robert of Cisyle; Speculum Gy de Warewyke
- Scope & Content:
- The manuscript's former binding is now stored separately as Harley MS 525/1. Contents: ff. 1r-34v: The Seege of Troye [see Boffey and Edwards, A New Index (2005), no. 3139; for an edition, see Seege or Batayle of Troye, ed. by Barnicle (1927)]; beginning: ‘Sithyn that god this worlde wroghte’...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Middle
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 15th century
- Extent:
-
1 volume
679. Harley MS 525/1
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 525/1
- Title:
- Detached former binding of Harley MS 525
- Scope & Content:
- Detached brown leather binding, tooled in gold, with the Harleian arms gold-stamped on the upper and lower covers, and a fragment of the spine; marbled endpapers. The binding was formerly attached to Harley MS 525 (The Seege of Troy; Robert of Cisyle; Speculum Gy de Warewyke) and is now stored se...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- 19th century
- Extent:
- Former binding of Harley MS 525
680. Harley MS 526
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 526
- Title:
- Bede, Vita Sancti Cuthberti metrica (BHL 2020); Vita Venerabilis Bedae (BHL1069); Vita Ædwardi Regis (BHL 2421); fragment of Aelred of Rievaulx's Vita Sancti Edwardi regis and confessoris (BHL 2423) and the papal commissioners' report on St Hugh of Lincoln and Avalon; Vita Adae et Evae
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript contains five parts: Bede's verse Vita S Cuthberti (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 2020), copied in northern France at the end of the 9th century (ff. 1-27); a vita of Bede, copied in France or England in the first half of the 12th century (ff. 28-36v); the only surviving, i...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Old and Latin
- Date Range:
- late 9th-14th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume